On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:44:47PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> This terminology actually confused me for years. I thought "Trusted"
> connections were safer. But actually it's an option you're supposed to
> use in situations where the connection IS trustworthy and you want to
> run stuff without extra security measures getting in your way.
> "Untrusted" is the one that makes it (somewhat) safer to deal with an
> untrusted remote host.

A "trusted" system is one which, if it were to fail, will screw you utterly.

Ideally, you only trust systems which are trustworthy, whiich is not
the same thing.

-- hendrik